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TITLE:
KDE KHTML PNG Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29980

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29980/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
KDE 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/18496/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in KDE, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in KHTML when
processing PNG files. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow via a specially crafted PNG file included in e.g. a
malicious web page.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in KHTML included in KDE versions 4.0
through 4.0.3.

SOLUTION:
Apply vendor patch.
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-kde-4.0.3-khtml.diff

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-1.txt

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